Albion Gidley Singer inhabits the shell of an entirely proper man of the world: husband, father, pillar of the community. But within him are frightened and frightening dark places from which spring fear and loathing of the flesh of females. And finally, the kind of violence that might call itself love.
Grenville brilliantly, if chillingly, captures the voice of the smug, self-hating businessman who despises others as he despises himself.
